Howdi,
I want to send chinese character emails via Net::SMTP perl. Is the
most reliable format MIME encoding? If so, and I have a stream of
characters (lets say utf-8), do I just Mime encode them quoted
printable and let the client mail application interpret? Anyone been
through this process?
Thanks,
--jim...

sending chinese character emails via Net::SMTP using Mime-tools

Howdi,
I want to send chinese character emails via Net::SMTP perl. Is the
most reliable format MIME encoding? If so, and I have a stream of
characters (lets say utf-8), do I just Mime encode them quoted
printable and let the client mail application interpret? Anyone been
through this process?
Thanks,
--jim

Re: sending chinese character emails via Net::SMTP using Mime-tools

> I want to send chinese character emails via Net::SMTP perl. Is the
> most reliable format MIME encoding? If so, and I have a stream of
> characters (lets say utf-8), do I just Mime encode them quoted
> printable and let the client mail application interpret? Anyone been
> through this process?

While I don't actually have an answer, amazingly enough I'm interested
in a similar problem, including how I can easily _de_code mails that may
contain UTF8 data.

Having a look on the web...
[url]http://www.mhonarc.org/[/url] - deals with mail and seems to know about UTF8
[url]http://www.perldiscuss.com/article.php?id=2389&group=perl.unicode[/url]
[url]http://search.cpan.org/~eryq/MIME-tools-5.411a/lib/MIME/Tools.pm[/url]

might be of some interest

I'd suspect that a robust way of sending UTF8 content is to use a
content transfer encoding of base64 and a content type of 'text/plain;
cht=utf-8' but I can't find any references to that online so it may
not be correct. But if anyone here know I'd certainly be interested in
finding the correct way.